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Parliament hit by Ukrainian fashion craze

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

12/1/04, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:32 PM CET

The must-have fashion accessory in the European Parliament of late has been an orange scarf, a visible sign of support for Viktor Yuschenko, Ukraine’s aspirant leader. The scarves were dreamt up by the office of the leader of the Polish centre-right MEPs, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, who was in Ukraine last week.

“We distributed 400 scarves last week and another 300 on Wednesday (1 December),” said one of his camp followers. Jean-Louis Bourlanges, the French ALDE MEP, was prominent in taking up the trend. By the time of yesterday’s plenary debate on Ukraine, the scarves were almost everywhere. Saryusz-Wolski went one better by sporting a bright orange tie.

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